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Charles Darwin

Charles Darwin
The evolution of the human race will not be accomplished in the ten thousand years of tame animals, but in the million years of wild animals, because man is and will always be a wild animal.
History shows that the human mind, fed by constant accessions of knowledge, periodically grows too large for its theoretical coverings, and bursts them asunder to appear in new habiliments, as the feeding and growing grub, at intervals, casts its too narrow skin and assumes another... Truly the imago state of Man seems to be terribly distant, but every moult is a step gained.
How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life.
A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life.
It is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.
A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, -- a mere heart of stone.